Materials with the desirable surface wettability are of key importance in diverse applications.
However, most of the existing chemical processes used for surface wettability control are …

The three-dimensional porous structure, excellent mechanical properties, rapid preparation
process, and low cost of nonwovens lay a foundation for the fabrication of superhydrophobic …

Bacteria and oils can be found in domestic sewage and wastewater from biomedical
industries, however, traditional membranes have limitation in bacterial resistance, so it is …

Herein, we present the fabrication of multifunctional polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) foams
with antibacterial, hydrophilic, and underwater superoleophobic properties for the …

Nanoparticles (NPs) of different types, especially those of metals and metal oxides, are
widely used in research and industry for a variety of applications utilising their unique …

Oil sorbents play a significant role in the treatment processes of oil spills, therefore,
enhancing the oil-water separation capacity of sorbents has been charming the …

The application of low-temperature plasma-based methods for the synthesis of functional
nanomaterials has been growing for several decades and nanoparticles (NPs) play an …

Abstract The CC@ TiO 2-Cu membranes with various Cu doping contents have been
synthesized via a simple one-step hydrothermal method for oil-water separation application …

In this work, we demonstrate, for the first time, the possibility to fabricate indium tin oxide
nanoparticles (ITO NPs) using a gas aggregation cluster source. A stable and reproducible …

Two saturated fatty acids, namely palmitic acid (PA) and lauric acid (LA) were incorporated
with glycidoxypropyl methoxy silane (GPTMS) into the nonwoven viscose fabric (NWVF) via …